July 2012
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“I want to live the rest of my life, however long or short, with as much...”
– Audre Lorde, Warriorpoetess (via versosdeliberacion)
“Womanists’ focus on the particularities of black women reflects the fact that...”
– Power in the Blood? The Cross in the African American Experience by: Jo Anne Marie Terrell (via blackgirlreadingscholarship)
Anonymous asked: dark brown skinned 45 yr old single mother who weighs 337lbs and live in a small southern town with men who are all on crack, where do I find love. I've raised my children and work hard I think I deserve love now also.
listening to "Bjork - All Is Full Of Love (amazing... →
Dedicated to an anonymous person who reached out on tumblr. I don’t know who you are, but I know this is true.
This is What it Feels Like: Cultivating Our...
Last night was the third session of Beyond the Feel-Good, our Brilliance Remastered webinar on cultivating a sustainable erotics of community accountable scholarship. We are right in the midst of it, using Lorde’s definition of the erotic to create new standards of brilliance for our work as love-fueled intellectuals. Helped along by Lorde and also by Aretha Franklin’s Dr. Feelgoodwe created...
The WOC Survival Kit: Black Girl Dangerous Writing... →
blackgirldangerous:
The July/August Black Girl Dangerous Writing Workshop is now OPEN. Register today!
The Black Girl Dangerous Writing Workshop is a workshop for queer, trans*, and gender-non-conforming writers of color.
Oakland: This offering is a 4-week workshop, taking place on…
listening to "Aretha Franklin - Dr. Feelgood -... →
Dedicated to the Sustainable Erotics Webinar Crew. When it’s right, it feels like a note Aretha just sang. Whew! http://tinyurl.com/d6b2qu9
The CFC: A Meeting at the Kitchen Table: POC... →
crunkfeministcollective:
A Meeting at the Kitchen Table: POC Feminists Envisioning the Future
POC Caucus CFP SEWSA 2013
Calling on some of our People of Color feminist foremothers, the POC Caucus panel hopes to examine where we are as POC academics, cultural workers, and artists and where we’d like to be. As…
Here: Remastering Presence in Academic Space (from...
Last night was the second session of our Brilliance Remastered Webinar Beyond the Feel-Good: A Sustainable Erotics of Community Accountable Scholarship. Amazingness. Last night we worked with Audre Lorde’s clarity that “the erotic offers a well of replenishing and provocative force to the [person] who does not fear its revelation, nor succumb to the belief that sensation is enough.” And for...
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http://lifebalanceconference.com/ →
my mom and I are leading the closing session for this awesome conference atlanta! come if you can!
listening to "Frank Ocean Thinking About You... →
Love 2 the Brilliance Remastered Sustainable Erotics Crew! Just like us! Cutting thru the BS & thinking bout 4ever2gether! http://tinyurl.com/cow6zar
Reclaiming YES!!!: Opening Affirmation from the...
Last night was the first session of the Beyond the Feel-Good Webinar on Sustainable Erotics of Community Accountable Scholarship. And oh my goodness did we go beyond! The Brilliance Remastered process never ceases to amaze and reawaken me!
As Audre Lorde says in her essay Uses of the Erotic: Power of the Erotic, “We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves…” Not at all coincidentally...
Queer Black August Retreat! Apply today!
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The Overview
In the spirit of historical practices such as Black August which commemorates African liberation and revolution in the Americas and the Combahee River Collective Black Feminist Retreats which built alignment and institutions by and for black women; Alexis Pauline Gumbs and Julia Roxanne Wallace are creating Queer Black August. This is a continuation of the two years and...
“As Audre Lorde asks in On My Way Out I Passed Over You and the Verrazano Bridge:...”
– Alexis Pauline Gumbs in http://thefeministwire.com/2012/07/3-lessons-from-natasha-trethewey-lesson-2-making-the-archive-you-need/
“The future is encoded in arcane symbols and old narratives.”
– Leslie Marmon Silko Almanac of the Dead (via phillisweekly)
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